Both Super Size Me and That Sugar Film document the health effects of extreme diets on the filmmakers over a month. In Super Size Me, the filmmaker eats only McDonald's food for a month and his health deteriorates, while in That Sugar Film the filmmaker consumes a high sugar diet for two months and also experiences negative health consequences. Both films use the filmmakers as subjects to demonstrate the damaging impacts of their experimental diets.

1. Do these films have something in
common?

2. It is a
documentary
about the effects
of eating a
“MacDiet” three
times a day for a
month.
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3. Spurlock followed specific rules
governing his eating habits:
 He must fully eat three McDonald's meals per
day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
 He must consume every item on the
McDonald's menu at least once over the
course of the 30 days .
 He must only ingest items that are offered on
the McDonald's menu, including bottled
water.
 He must only Super Size the meal when
offered.
 He will attempt to walk about as much as a
typical United States citizen.
Source: Wikipedia

4.  THAT SUGAR FILM
documents the
effects of a high
sugar diet on a
healthy body,
consuming only
foods that are
commonly
perceived, or
promoted to be
'healthy’ for 2
months.
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5.  Both actors are the “guinea pigs” of their
own experiment.
 In both experiments, their health is
damaged.

8. Sugary drinks have made his
teeth rotten, despite regularly
brushing his teeth

10. No, each year 26,000 primary school
children go to hospital just because
of rotten teeth. Sugar is the main
cause why children in the UK go to
hospital

11. What is the average
amount of sugar
that many people in
the UK consume?
 7 teaspoons is the
recommended
amount.
 In the UK many
people usually
consume about 40
teaspoons of sugar.

13. Yes, we have seen an example which
exceeds by 5 times the recommeded
amount because of the hidden sugar
in food.

15. Type 2 diabetes, which could be considered a
diet-related illness. This illness used to be
associated to old people, now there are more
and more kids in the UK who have been
diagnosed with it.

17. • No. 70% of confectionery sales are
impulse buys and sweets are at child
eye-level and easy to reach.

20.  The health system is collapsing because there are a
lot of people suffering from diabetes, blindness-
related diabetes. Furthermore, lots of them are
losing their limbs because they needed to be
amputated.

22. The soda tax was introduced in Mexico
in 2014. Soda consumption has
decreased, and water and milk
consumption increased.

24. Jamie Oliver introduced it in his own UK
restaurants to give an example to the
government about what could be done on a
national scale. He is going to spend that
money on children's food education.